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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on July 11.
Events
[edit]19th century
[edit]20th century
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- 1905 – The Scott Special arrives at Dearborn Station in Chicago, 44 hours and 54 minutes after departing Los Angeles.[1][2]
- 1910 – Construction begins on the Sheridan Railway in Sheridan, Wyoming.
- 1914 – The Karkamış to Ceylanpınar line of the Berlin–Baghdad railway opens.
- 1942 – A section of the Sind Peshin State Railway in the Chappar Rift, in present day Pakistan, is destroyed by a flash flood; the line has not been rebuilt.
- 1993 – The last empty freight cars belonging to each other's railway networks are transferred across the closed border between Turkey and Armenia and returned to their respective railways.
- 2000 – VIA Rail Canada announces that it will use five sleeping cars leased from Amtrak for runs between Winnipeg and Churchill, Manitoba.
21st century
[edit]- 2005 – Amtrak resumes limited Acela Express service with four daily departures each from New York and Washington, D.C.[3]
- 2006 – A series of bombs explode aboard commuter trains on the Mumbai Suburban Railway in India.
- 2006 – A derailment and subsequent fire on the Blue Line of the Chicago 'L' system closes the line just after 5:00 PM Central Time.[4][5]
- 2006 – Daqin Railway becomes the first Chinese railway company to be listed on a domestic Chinese stock exchange when the railway's application was approved by the China Securities Regulatory Commission.[6]
Births
[edit]- 1827 – Austin Corbin, president of Long Island Rail Road (d. 1896).
Deaths
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Signor, John R., compiler (First Quarter 2006). "Death Valley Scotty's "Coyote" Special". The Warbonnet. 12 (1): 17–29.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) (The Warbonnet is the official journal of the Santa Fe Railway Historical and Modeling Society) - ^ Waters, Leslie L. (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press. pp. 389–392.
- ^ Amtrak (July 11, 2005). "Acela Express Returns to Service". Retrieved July 13, 2005.
- ^ "Smoke, fire fill subway". Chicago Tribune. July 12, 2006. Retrieved July 12, 2006.
- ^ "Chicago subway train derails". CNN. July 12, 2006. Retrieved July 12, 2006.
- ^ China Knowledge (July 13, 2006). "Daqin Railway first rail company listed on Mainland". Retrieved July 13, 2006.